Moira Lacowicz (Brazil) was born in 1992 in Fraiburgo, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after studying Social Communication at the Positivo University (Curitiba) and Cinema at the Universidad del Cine Foundation (Buenos Aires). Since 2018, she explores possibilities of analog cinema through alternative processes. Her films have been screened worldwide including at venues in the United States, Canada, India, Romania, Scotland, Japan and Peru among others.

Faith Arazi (US; she/her) is an artist and AV technician based in San Francisco. Faith has interned for Craig Baldwin at Other Cinema, inspected and prepared countless 16mm artist made prints for Canyon Cinema and remains an active member of the volunteer run microcinema Artists’ Television Access (est. 1984). She is currently a projectionist and art preparator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Faith’s art practice is rooted in collage and non narrative filmmaking that payfully explores capitalist anxieties, latinx identity and poetic mystery. Madeleine Mori (US; she/her) is a Japanese/American poet originally from San Francisco. Her work has appeared in BOAAT, Cosmonauts Avenue, Salt Hill and Sixth Finch, among others venues. She received an MFA from New York University, where she served as a Poetry Editor of Washington Square Review. She lives in Brooklyn and is the Poetry Editor at Pigeon Pages.

Jon Behrens (US) is a Seattle based filmmaker/composer. His films have been screened at film festivals, colleges and museums throughout the world since the early 1980’s including screenings at Antimatter Film Festival Canada, Seattle International Film Festival, TIE Film Festival Colorado, London Underground Film Festival, Crossroads Film Festival San Francisco, Festival International des Cinemas Differents et Experimentaux in Paris, Alternative Film and Video festival in Novi Beograd Serbia, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris and many many others. His work ranges from personal film diary’s to abstract hand painted optically printed works. In addition to filmmaking Jon Behrens is also a composer and has created sound designs for most of his own films starting about 10 years ago, as well as non film related compositions. Jon Behrens is also the co-founder co-director of the Interbay Cinema Society which also produces the Engauge Experimental Film Festival. 

Onyeka Igwe (United Kingdom) is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation. She was born and is based in London, UK.  In her non-fiction video work Onyeka uses dance, voice, archives, sound design and text to create structural “figure-of-eights,” a format that exposes a multiplicity of narratives. Her works have been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and LUX, London; the Berlin Biennale; International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Smithsonian African American Film Festival, among others. She has exhibited at articule, Montreal; Trinity Square Video, Toronto; and Jerwood Space, London as well as other spaces. She was awarded the New Cinema Award at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2019 and the 2020 Arts Foundation Fellowship Award for Experimental Film. 

Chicago based artist Jean Sousa (US) has worked in film and photography since the late ‘70s. Her experimental films are concerned with the interplay between text, sound, and image, the physical properties of the medium, and narrative form as a structuring device. She is interested in exploring the female subject and various gender tropes. Her work falls under the aegis of personal cinema with the belief that the personal is political. Sousa’s films have screened worldwide at venues including (among others) the National Film Theater in London; Image Forum, Tokyo; the Funnel, Toronto; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Anthology Film Archives; the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Onion City Film Festival. The films of Jean Sousa are are distributed by the Canyon Cinema Foundation.

Simon Liu (Hong Kong/United Kingdom) is a film artist whose work centers on building a lyrical catalogue of the rapidly evolving inner and outer landscapes of his place of origin in Hong Kong through alternative documentary forms, abstract diary films, multi-channel video installations and 16mm projection performances. These films act as a storage mechanism which offer potential re-examinations of the city’s history and Liu’s shifting notions of selfhood as a person of Chinese/English decent who was born in a former British colony. An upcoming solo-presentation of Liu’s work will take place at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of their ongoing Modern Mondays series. Liu’s work has shown at NYFF: Projections, IFFR: Tiger Short Competition, TIFF: Wavelengths, Sundance Film Festival, New Directors/New Films at MoMA & Lincoln Center, British Film Institute, M+ Museum, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Cinéma du Réel, CROSSROADS at SFMoMA, Light Industry, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and “Dreamlands: Expanded” with the Whitney Museum of American Art & Microscope Gallery. Liu is a 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a recipient of the NYSCA / Wave Farm Media Arts Assistance Fund in 2018. He is a teacher at the Cooper Union School of Art and a member of the Brooklyn based artist-run film lab Negativeland. Liu is currently editing his first feature film, Staffordshire Hoard.

Douglas Urbank (US), based in Boston, Massachusetts, is an artist with a background in sculpture and drawing who began to experiment with film in 2008.  He is a founding member of the AgX filmmakers collective, established in 2015.  He is also a member of Fort Point Theatre Channel, an independent theater company bringing together an ensemble of artists from the worlds of theater, music and visual arts.  Between 2001 and 2013 he was host of a radio program devoted to experimental, improvisational and other unconventional music and sound art.

Lydia Nsiah (Austria) lives and works in Vienna and abroad. As filmmaker, visual artist and researcher she works with the in-between, abysses and gaps in audiovisual knowledge production by means of film, photography, text and installation. She works, publishes and exhibits internationally on Virtuality, Forgetting and Remembering, Anti*colonial Practice, Failure and Error, Film Art and Use.

Rajee Samarasinghe (Sri Lanka/US) is a filmmaker born and raised in Sri Lanka. Rajee received his BFA from UCSD and his MFA from CalArts. He is currently working on his debut feature, Your Touch Makes Others Invisible, inspired by his childhood experiences during the Sri Lankan civil war—the project received a Sundance Documentary Fund grant and was invited to Berlinale Talents’ Doc Station as well as True/False Film Festival’s inaugural PRISM program. Rajee’s work has been exhibited at the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films by Film Society of Lincoln Center & MoMA, BFI London Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Slamdance Film Festival, SFFILM Festival, REDCAT, Message to Man, Havana Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and San Diego Asian Film Festival among many others. He’s received the “Tíos Award for Best International Film” at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the “Film House Award for visionary filmmaking” at the Athens International Film + Video Festival among others.